April Lesson Plan

Students gain experience running a small retail business with a mobile coffee cart. They learn about revenues, expenses, profit, and losses.

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Objective: Students will use the mobile cart to sell coffee and pastries to the Springstone faculty and parents on an ongoing basis, then track money earned

Common Core Standards:

(1) Apply and extend previous understandings of operations

(2) Interpret differences in data sets and accounting

What: Students will learn about ideas for potential small businesses such as coffee shops, and learn more about their own interests and abilities. Students will gain understanding of a small business

How: (1) Introduce what is involved in running a small business, (2) explain terms such as revenues, expenses, profit and losses, (3) Practice using excel spreadsheet to track them